Introducing Barack “Arugula” Obama; Update: CafePress says, “No, you can’t”
Artfully talented reader Tennyson, inspired by See-Dubya’s posts on Obama’s arugula gaffe (see here and here) and by Michael Bates’s funny 2007 post on “typical liberal arugulance,” has cooked up a new photoshop to commemorate the old remarks making news again in light of his small-town condescension:
Like Bates asked: “What is it about Democratic presidential candidates and upscale leafy vegetables?”
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We’ll have to add the Arugula image to our Snobwear collection–if CafePress puts our products back up. They’ve yanked our merchandise based on “content policy usage” concerns, which we have already addressed. I’ll keep you posted.
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Update: CafePress has removed our Snob-ama products again, citing copyright infringement concerns.
Meanwhile, they have no problem with this merchandise from gay supporters of Obama:
Or any of these or other countless Obama products utilizing Obama’s likeness and logo themes:
But don’t worry, typical bitter people! We’ll find a new place to sell SNOBwear. I’ll update with a link soon.
Update: Here’s the new shop at Printfection.
Here’s Tennyson’s new poster with the changes to the Obama logo that CafePress rejected:
For reference, here’s the logo on the original photoshop that CafePress says it objected to:
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Mr.Snob: “I see where the cost of polo pony feed has gone up again”
Mrs. Snob: “Oh,dear…how to they expect PEOPLE to live?”
Obabma is pro illegal invaders because they pick the arugula American hicks won’t pick.
LOL
Do they stock arugula at my local Wal-Mart… Guess I’ll go home put on my cut off shorts and t-shirt and drive my truck, the one with the gun rack, up to the Wal-Mart to find out.
Maybe if he didn’t buy so much fancy lettuce him and his wife wouldn’t complain so much about spending 10,000$ for their kids summer camp, soccer,and dance lessons.
Welcome to the real world. Iceberg is fine with me.
It’s the first time Michelle Obama has been proud to eat a salad, in her life…
I hear that the price of champagne and pheasant-under-glass is going up, too. He just might need to (shudder) eat a BURGER, FRIES, AND SHAKE! (Gasp!)
Beautiful!
ROFLMBO
I don’t even know what arugula is. Does that make me a bitter middle class person that is hopelessy clingling to my faith or some other silly thing?
Here in the trailer park we grow our own and make our own beer!
Maybe he’s just a big Rachael Ray fan. You know she loves her “Rocket Lettuce”. When’s the last time anybody saw any of these “of The People” types in a grocery store or cooking their own meals anyway. You know Bill doesn’t eat Hillary’s food…if he knows what’s good for him. I’d love to see another real-life couple in the White House like W. and Laura. Unfortunately we get this bunch.
Fancy foods are an important part of any snob’s diet, don’chano. So important that you, the taxpayer, must provide the poor children of the Berkeley government schools with the money needed to buy them.
Michelle had this on an earlier post, from Senator Jim DeMint’s homepage;
By refusing to grow arugula the people of Iowa are not meeting the needs of the children of snobby parents!
Shame!
+Photi
“I’d love to see another real-life couple in the White House like W. and Laura.”
you’re funny..
McCain and Clinton are both worth over $100 million, and people are harping on Obama because he shops at Whole Foods?
I guess he just got too uppity for some folks.
“Arugula – bitter as a rural Pennsylvanian”
You sure that’s not watercress?
I’ve never commented before, but I guess I’ll endive right in. This whole story is radicchiolous. It’s just bitter greens for a bitter bunch of people.
AlohaGuy
That could perhaps be the best thing I’ve heard all day!
It’s ok, I had no idea either. So I checked it out.
Apparently it’s some kind of incredibly expensive grossly mutated lettuce that may or may not work as an aphrodisiac in addition to being profoundly rich on Vitamin C, and is – humorously – described as having a “rich” taste.
I’d love to see another real-life couple in the White House like W. and Laura.
Yeah, because the son of a president and former head of the CIA, who attended Andover, Yale, and Harvard, is just like the rest of us. But I guess he isn’t an elite because he can’t pronounce nuclear correctly.
I have never been much of an arugula fan because it’s a little too “bitter” for my taste.
No wonder Obama thinks people are so bitter these days. He sees the world through arugula colored glasses.
Note to Mr. “O” – While grocery shopping with my family this past weekend at Super Wal-mart, I noticed they had a special on arugula: two of the prewashed packages for just six dollars!
But being the man of the people that you are, I’m sure you already know this. Just like you know that the majority of typical white and black Americans buy their groceries at Super Wal-mart – not at eco-friendly & thrice-the-price Whole Foods!
No luckybrand, people are harping on him because he thinks Iowa voters shop at the upscale, non-existent (in Iowa) Whole Foods, and that the rising cost of Arugula is an “everyman” concern. Coupled with his recent comments about “bitter” people, some of us think he’s a snob. Not an “Uppity” black person, a snob. His ancestral roots have nothing to do with it.
Hmmm…The Obamas attended Harvard, Princeton, etc., wife makes over $300K/year. I guess they’re average “normal” people too. Guess that doesn’t count though, right?
hrobusto,
Reminds me of the old joke. Her first husband died from eating poison mushrooms.
Her second husband died from a fractured skull
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He wouldn’t eat his mushrooms.
As soon as I can pick myself back up, I salute you!
Thanks GOPGin!
cpodug,
Ditto. MM let in some great new blood – have you noticed?
A whole lot better than us, looks like
The piano lessons are expensive according to Mrs. O, so I will cut them a little slack in honor of the late Woodshed, music teacher, banned troll.
On-my-soap-box, don’t go getting one of them elitist attitudes now…
Obama isn’t an elitist. He’s a elitist wannabe…
Such a repulsive little man trying to be what he isn’t and he’s bitter because of it…he’s all about the show.
Where I live, arugula is just something you use in salad (and appears on nearly every restaurant menu), and is wholly bereft of class or political implications. Maybe that’s why I genuinely cannot grasp what all the hoopla is about. Neither do I believe that any person can be reduced to their taste in salad greens.
Sigh. I guess it’s too bad Obama isn’t as down-to-earth as past presidents such as Andover/Yale legacy George Bush (41 or 43 — take your pick); old-money Franklin D. Roosevelt; or hyper-educated, Francophile Thomas “Fancy Lad” Jefferson. Although, I don’t know that by the standards used here to judge Obama that any of the aforementioned would be considered an everyman…
#4, I actually saw arugula at the super Wal-Mart in Hinesville, GA, when we lived there. I’m sure they have it other places, just haven’t been close enough again to a super Wal-Mart.
I’ve actually had it a few times but I’m an iceberg or romaine kind of girl myself. It sort of had this peppery type taste but perhaps it’s an acquired taste?
Soap and Cpodug, about the newbies-guess the Kos Kids got word of it and signed up.
That’s ironic. There’s more content in the messages on your shirts than there is in the entire Obama platform. Maybe that’s CafePress’ concern.
Since when is $1.99 incredibly expensive?
And since when is a naturally grown member of the mustard family considered “grossly mutated lettuce?”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arugula
This is hysterical. There are indeed class implications. If Obama had wanted to show he’s out of touch with the average taxpayer, the arugula question was spot on. Ask the server at the Maid-Rite if they have arugula for your sandwich and they’ll look at you sideways. The families the left likes to describe as “at risk” aren’t eating much arugula, if they eat salad at all.
Compared to the wholesale price of these leafy devils, $1.99 would seem a fortune.
Clearly I’m not in the mainstream on this one, but I think it’s far funnier that when D’oh-bama asked Iowa voters if they had been into Whole Foods and seen the price of arugula, there were no Whole Foods stores in Iowa.
I am really sorry be O/T, but I have been watching the Pope arrive here in America. It is a wonderful day for all the Catholic posters. I pray his visit will be a blessing to you all. Again, sorry, there wasn’t a place post my feelings. I, myself am not Catholic, but I do hope his visit will be a great help to you all.
L
I’ve never eaten it.
I only eat crow.
Point taken, Texas Tiger. Not astute at all on Obama’s part, although I don’t agree with some that it rises to the level of snobbery. I grew up in Connecticut and never set foot in a Whole Foods until a few years ago, in New Orleans of all places.
Arugula?
OK, putting aside that it sounds like a foreign word for something you cough up from your lungs, it still sounds like it violates the proper order of the food chain: you don’t eat leafy plants yourself, but rather feed them to a pig, cow, or chicken …. then kill and eat the pig, cow or chicken.
No no. First you prepare a lovely bernaise sauce for the steak. And pair that with a nice Bordeaux, I’m thinking a Pomerol.
Then you lovingly stuff the pork with a delicious apple stuffing. Now many would tell you white wine with white meat, but I say go ahead and pair that with a red on the lighter side, like a nice Burgundy or Oregonian Pinot Noir. Of course a Reisling from Alcase would be very nice too.
And then you throw away the chicken because only poor people eat chick– oh. wait. I fear I have said too much.
Well, ironically, arugula, aka roquette or rocket, is a spicy cousin of the humble mustard green, a staple of the “lower income” southern diet. And it’s very easy (and cheap) to grow your own, as we have in our back yard garden. It’s nothing to be snobby about!
Now that is funny
Bingo!
That was a cute pic. Have to try that arugula. I wonder how Barry Hussein Osama likes it…oh….oops.
Looks like CafePress still has the Snobama merchandise spiked. Cowards.
You guys are totally cracking me up.
“Arugula – bitter as a rural Pennsylvanian” indeed!
Perfectly said, Aloha Guy.
I prefer the Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw, Passion Fruit Mousse, and Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage recipes by
Cindy McCainThe Food Network.Snob:…from the Latin…’sine nobilitas’…without nobility
Someone’s been reading too much of the Politico today…
Hence “That’s a store, you ignorant hick”
(this is only my third cartoon ever so apologies if it doesn’t entirely make sense)
Almost every state in the South has one, so Iowa seems to be behind the curve.
Hey, NYK. Thomas Jefferson brought ice cream to the White House. Obummer’s gonna bring bitter greens!
Any way. We po folks be pickin poke sallet, no money fo da sto bought greens…
and seriously when the price of gas here is over $3.75 who gives a flying fig about arugula?
Avacado’s sky high, even granny smith apples are 1.99lb….
but gas prices suck.
Not one of them has mentioned that.
I hope I have enough change for Gasoline.
He may be an elitist wannabe now but he’s an elitist gonnabe soon. His wife gets a $200K raise when he was elected to the Senate, her hospital gets an earmark soon after. Change my backside. Same old crap.
ajmontana said: #62, I’ve save a ton of money and I didn’t have to switch to Geigo. My party gave me Mcinsane so I don’t have to donate this time around. I can now afford the gas prices and Arugula. I might get some of that there fancy $100 a pound Ham.
luckybrand, et al.:
Here’s what real food snobs look like. You will LYAO.
umm.. why all these personal attacks lately? Many seem to be based on silly things like what food Obama eats and the shock and horror of Hillary knocking back a shooter. How about more about their politics, that’s what concerns me, and what should be concerning everyone else, not what they did or did not eat for breakfast. C’mon Michelle, I’ve been an avid follower here for a long time, but you seen to be lowering your standards lately.. just because the left do it, doesn’t mean you have to.
unreal. screw them.
cafe express is a bunch of mamby pamby’s…. go suck an egg cafe exp. losers.
scratch me from ever buying anything there.
aj, Obama had a meeting at the Getty home a few days ago, so you can expect prices to fall any time now. No wait…
It’s kind of convoluted, and I’ve done almost no research, but I believe Getty Oil is owned by Lukoil – a Russian company – and licenses the Getty name from Getty Real Estate, the company that owns the name. So – and it’s a wild guess – the Getty in Pacific Heights gets money from a Russian company and uses it to host a fundraiser for Obama. Did they invite poor Hsu, or is this a Russian money versus Chinese money Dem run-off?
Sure, it’s a stretch, and hyperbole is often my middle name, but how many coincidences are there in politics? Arugula is a red-herring. And with a little salt and pepper, EVOO (Rachel Ray did you say?) and Balsamic vinegar you have a salad.
i had no idea people were so passionate about arugula..bizarre.
I admit to never (knowingly) eating arugula.
But I do remember watching a TV news story of President George H W Bush shopping at a grocery store with a news crew during his 1992(?) campaign, and being surprised at the “new” laser bar code scanner. I believe this was after a reporter asked him how much a loaf a bread cost, or something like that.
Can any millionaire represent the American people?
you can only write so many times…
Hope and Change
what else does he have?
and el skanky is a flat out liar, can you believe her policies?
Parody is not copyright infringement.
http://www.publaw.com/parody.html
Cafepress…what a bunch of tools.
We don’t need them to represent us. We want them to defend the Constitution, provide for the common defense, incarcerate the bad guy…and nothing else.
Glad to see Snoboma wear found a new home.
Bottoms. For Obama.
Well, all righty then!
I got the mo’ bitter blues
Just turn the logo upside down without changing its design. Kind of like turning a flag upside down.
We don’t need them to represent us. We want them to defend the Constitution, provide for the common defense, incarcerate the bad guy…and nothing else. — in other words, we need someone to do the job that GWB hasn’t been able to do.
When your the near abused Barack Hussein Obama the child they are collard greens. When you are the court ordered Barack Hussein Obama person of privilege, who graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School on various types of merit dollars, those greens become arugula. The one life course ignored by Obama and the rest of his clan is humility.
Well, it’s clear who some of the new trolls are.
Then it could be Bottoms Up For Obama.
PBoilermaker, Picking them out now.
Tennyson said #83,
LOL good one
tennyson, your photoshops are excellent.
Arugula is said to be an aphrodisiac. I didn’t know a greeny vegetable could be so Seductive.
I wonder if Rezko will be able to get Arugula if he’s sent to the big house.(and by big house, I’m not talking the one they sold Obambi)
May I ask would you rather have a welfare recipient represent us? Oh wait – the Clintons have lived their whole life on the public dole so they do qualify.
TT, #75
Exactly!!!
Here in Phoenix 4 bucks. And no, I did not buy a loaf. I’ll go to the thrift bakery and buy day old bread for a dollar instead.
I seem to remember CafePress pulling the same BS when it came to the anti-Moveon.org products. One site that will continue not to get this households business.
Michelle this typical bitter person would like to know if you are moving all your products to Printfection?
I am disappointed that CafePress refused your wears and accepted others. As this election season drags on, I find myself becoming less patient with PC behavior.
correction! refused your
wearswares.Wait, what the gak is arugula? Mom never fed me weeds when I was a kid!
Tennyson#5.34pm #58 – We hearts you and thank you for the great laughs. I’ve sent your photoshop around the world with the strict advice not to attempt to take credit for it because it’s copyrighted..? Humor is the aphrodisiac of the mind, and now with leafy greens added it’s good for you too.
I’m so glad MM does give a few precious moments to humor. We have the choice of participating in humor or attempting to throw a wet towel on it. So my advice is, if you don’t care to engage in an exchange of a few moments of laughter and fun – go where you feel most comfortable
How about the one Rev Wright is getting from his church? Now that’s a big house!